Hooker's Sweet Indian
Variety
Hooker's Sweet Indian
Approved Data
created by Ulrike N at 16.02.2023
Features
Color
white
yellow
blue
Taste
sweet
Location
planting: greenhouse
planting: bed
Cultivation Break
3 Years
Season Overview
Propagating
Planting
Harvest
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Description
Very early, low sweet corn. Usually forms several rather small cobs that ripen from white to yellow to violet-blue. Edible as fresh sweetcorn until the purple stage, after which the cobs can be dried and processed into sweet cornmeal.
Non hybrid
Not frost resistant
Growing tips
Block cultivation promotes the development of fully formed cobs. Very aromatic and sweet.
Details
Light requirement
Sunny
Water requirement
Moist
Soil
Light (sandy)
Nutrient requirement
High
Plant distance
15 cm
Row spacing
50 cm
Seeding depth
5 cm
Companion Plants
Basil
Bean ((Scarlet) runner bean)
Bean (Broad bean / Faba bean / Field bean)
Bean (Dwarf bean)
Bean (Hyacinth bean / Lablab-bean)
Bean (Lima Bean)
Bean (Runner bean)
Common marigold
Courgette / Zucchini
Cucumber (African horned cucumber / Kiwano)
Cucumber (Caigua)
Cucumber (Melothria)
Cucumber / Gherkin
Dill
Lettuce (Lettuce)
Melon (Sugar melon)
Melon (Watermelon)
Ornamental pumpkin
Pea
Potato
Pumpkin / Squash
Soybean
Sponge gourd / Egyptian cucumber / Vietnamese luffa
Sunflower
Tagetes / Marigolds
Antagonistic Plants
Abyssinian cabbage / Ethiopian mustard
Beetroot
Black salsify
Broccoli
Broccoli raab / Stem cabbage / Cima di rapa
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage (Cabbage)
Cabbage (Pointed cabbage)
Cabbage (red cabbage)
Cabbage (Savoy cabbage)
Cauliflower
Celery (Celeriac / Celery root)
Celery (Celery)
Celery (Leaf celery / Chinese celery)
Chinese kale - Kai-lan / Chinese broccoli
Chives
Collard greens
Collard greens (Kale)
Collard greens (Tuscan kale / Dinosaur kale / Palm tree kale)
Garlic
Garlic chives
Jerusalem artichoke / Topinambur
Kohlrabi / German turnip / Turnip cabbage
Leeks
Lovage
Mizuna / Japanese mustard greens
Napa cabbage / Chinese cabbage
Onion
Pak Choi
Rapeseed - Sheer cabbage / Siberian cabbage
Rapini / Broccoli rabe
Rutabaga / Swedish turnip
Sea coal
Tomato (Bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail Stake Tomato)
Tomato (Stake tomato)
Turnip
Turnip greens - Choy Sum / Chinese flowering cabbage
Turnip greens - Mizuna
Turnip greens - Tatsoi
Turnip-rooted chervil
Turnips - Oilseed turnips
Turnips - Wild turnips
Vegetable cabbage - Forage cabbage
Vegetable cabbage - Ribbed cabbage / Portuguese cabbage
Vegetable cabbage - wild cabbage / ancient cabbage
Wild garlic
Diseases
Root Rot
Fusarium
Angular leaf spot of cucumber
Pests
Caterpillars
Aphids
Wireworms
